Welcome to the digital era of biology (and to this modest blog I started in early 2005).To cure many diseases, like cancer or cystic fibrosis, we will need to target genes (mutations, for ex.), not organs! I am convinced that the future of replacement medicine (organ transplant) is genomics (the science of the human genome). In 10 years we will be replacing (modifying) genes; not organs!

Actually those two guys, Crick and Watson, were outsiders, regarded by their academic collegues as total idlers. They were thought of as
unreliable kids, screwed up scientists, good enough for talking at any
great length and making ridiculous models and achieving nothing but this
one thing in particular: annoying and annoying further serious
scientists working hard on their serious experiments... Academic
insiders are the real thing, you see... Not those idle kids who will
take nothing seriously... Except that Crick and Watson got famous for
their achievements in genomics... They've discovered the molecular structure of DNA (the double helix), which got them a Nobel Prize.

"Doesn’t look like much, does it? But, depending upon your definition,
this photograph, a team effort by 9 men, is the most honored picture in
U. S."

This photograph has been taken by 9 "screwed up pilots" whose
story reminds me of Crick and Watson's... A misfit crew, made of nine
perfect army rebuttal examples, each in its own style, and their DIY
plane went on the deadliest mission ever (without proper authorization,
by the way, just like Crick and Watson working on the double helix of
human DNA), in South Pacific in the early days of World War II...

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In March 2005, I've initiated a blog about bioethics. Organ replacement technologies and genomics are part of today's sustainable health economics. This is not medicine under ideological pressure ! ...